The Irish Sports Pages: A Milan Jacovich Mystery - Hardcover

Roberts, Les

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312286619 ISBN 13: 9780312286613

Verlag: Minotaur Books, 2002

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Milan Jacovich, Cleveland's private eye extraordinaire, gets the usual PI's run of cases -- checking on insurance claims, looking for missing persons, validating a job applicant's credentials. But now and again, along comes the unusual case -- one that is really out of Milan's sphere, but which he takes on from a sense of justice, for personal reasons, and even if the client can't afford to pay.

There's nothing pro bono about Milan's current case. His client is a woman of status and wealth. But it is definitely on the personal side. It seems that Judge Maureen Hartigan has a serious problem that she wants to kept quiet. And since her daughter Cathleen and Milan have had an off-again-on-again friendship, which only teeters on the edge of something more, she asks Cathleen to call him. Judge Hartigan, a woman of impeccable reputation, has unwittingly given refuge to a scam artist. Through her, Cathleen had become involved with the man, and all because Cathleen's cousin Hugh had been a sucker. It happened in a familiar way: The man came into an Irish bar, made a beeline for Hugh, who was drinking alone and a little in his cups, told him that he was just off the plane from Ireland, and that his luggage, containing not only his clothes but his passport and wallet, was lost; he had no clean clothes, no money, no identification, no credit cards. Could Hugh help him until the luggage was found? A fellow Irishman, thought Hugh, even to one a couple of generations removed from the Auld Sod? Sure.

Judge Hartigan didn't expect to recover the money this "Brian McFall" had stolen. She wanted revenge. It was Milan's job to find the man. Then he was saved the trouble when McFall turned up shot to death. The missing-person case became a homicide, one that Lieutenant McHargue, Milan's nemesis, warned him to keep out of. Milan didn't heed the warning.. He wanted to finish what he started, he wanted to help Cathleen and her mother. What he did not want was to become the target of a killer. But in Milan's business, you can't have everything, now can you?

Readers, however, will get what they want: an engaging, thrill-packed story with a number of characters they would like to meet -- and a few they wouldn't.

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Les Roberts, a native Chicagoan, lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He moved there from Hollywood, where, among other things, he was the producer of Hollywood Squares. Past president of the Private Eye Writers of America, Roberts won the initial St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye novel contest in 1986.

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Cathleen Hartigan is a successful Cleveland attorney with a sterling political pedigree. But bad judgment trumps money, power, and position every time, and Cathleen puts her family's reputation at risk when she decides to bed a charming drifter with no discernible past, Brian McFall. He absconds with some mementos, including decades-old photos that could besmirch the family legacy. Cathleen hires Cleveland private investigator Milan Jacovich, who traces McFall's trail back to Con McCardle. An Irish political leader with murky ties to Sinn Fein, McCardle makes it clear to Milan that questions regarding McFall will lead to trouble. Jacovich presses on, learning that McFall also runs errands for the Cleveland Mob. When McFall is murdered, Jacovich finds himself in a three-sided vise--cops, the Mob, and McCardle--that forces him to call in almost every favor he's owed. The eleventh Jacovich case is typically entertaining: plotting, characterization, and setting dovetail into an excellent reading experience for mystery fans. Jacovich is tough and intelligent and possesses enough self-awareness to make him very good company indeed. Heartily recommended. Wes Lukowsky
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Slovenian-American ex-cop-turned-PI Jacovich finds himself up to his eyeballs in crime in Roberts's latest roller-coaster ride of a mystery (after 2001s The Dutch). When William Poduska, a two-bit thug with a long list of aliases, ends up beaten and then shot to death in a lowlife motel, Jacovich must not only take a hard look at the Irish version of organized crime in Cleveland but also poke around in the business of his friend, crime boss Don Giancarlo D'Allessandro. To complicate matters, Jacovich discovers that a prominent client, Common Pleas Judge Maureen Hartigan, is the mother of his former girlfriend, Cathleen, who more recently has been involved with D'Allessandro's nephew. Both the judge and Cathleen are under pressure to reveal secrets they'd prefer never to make public, and now Jacovich has to do his best to cook up a solution without unveiling the whole recipe. The soup really thickens when Jacovich learns that the widow of the womanizing Poduska is none other than the niece of Cornelius "Con" McCardle, Cleveland's Irish godfather. Meanwhile, the obits, aka the Irish sports pages, are providing some interesting reading. Robert's speeds the reader through an investigation offering plenty of delicious twists and turns without ever compromising credibility.
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Minotaur Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312286619
• ISBN 13: 9780312286613
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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